-The Economic Times In over a decade, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been instrumental in providing employment to rural households. One of its key provisions is that once the work week is completed, the worker must be paid within 15 days. Millions depend on the timely payment of these wages. The payments process has made many strides in the last decade, from cash payments to wages being...
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Jean Dreze, development economist and social activist, interviewed by Rupashree Nanda (CNN-News18)
-News18.com In an interview with News18’s Rupashree Nanda, Dreze, who was a member of Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council and an architect of the National Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), says that there have been no major initiatives in the social field in the last four years, with the partial exception of Swachh Bharat. Government data reveal that the Indian economy is growing at a robust rate but noted economist Jean Dreze believes...
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-PTI New Delhi: A fortnight before Karnataka goes to polls, PSU oil firms have stopped revising petrol and diesel PRIces although benchmark international rates have gone up by almost $2 per barrel. The daily PRIce notification issued by oil firms showed that petrol and diesel PRIces have been static since APRIl 24. This is despite the benchmark international rate for petrol going up from $78.84 a barrel, which was cited for raising the...
More »Modi claims all Indian villages have electricity but India Today report says otherwise -Anindya Banerjee
-India Today The government of India claimed that all villages in the country have been electrified. New Delhi: PRIme Minister Modi tweeted, "28th APRIl 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity." The PRIme Minister specifically...
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-The Telegraph Economist who served as finance minister dies at 90 Calcutta: Former Bengal finance minister Ashok Mitra, who also served as the chief economic adviser to the Indian government, passed away in a city nursing home on Tuesday morning. The Marxist economist was 90 and had been suffering from age-related complications. His wife Gouri had died 10 years ago. An economist by training - with a PhD under Nobel laureate economist Jan Tinbergen -...
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